I hope that this is not to much of a noob question, but since I started using Arch I haven't been able to access my external hard drive through KDE. I posted on the forums about the problem but it seems that the other people who had the problem, had the problem in a different way. My problem is I can access my cdrom drive through the desktop but cannot access my external hdd. When I try to I get an error message concerning HAL Permission Policy. So I read back through The Beginners Guide and two things came to mind- user 'groups' and /etc/fstab. In /etc/fstab these are the devices that show: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 No external hdd? Also, why are there two cdrom devices when I only have 1 cd drive and 1 dvd drive? I was wondering if the external hdd doesn't exist in /etc/fstab because I did not add it as a 'group' (which I think I did) or for some other reason? Supposedly I could use HAL, in some way- although I would rather have the external hdd in /etc/fstab. How do I get the external hdd to exist in /etc/fstab , which I think it should? Thanks, Preston